Tech Lead

DWP Digital; United States; Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Public sector pension (28.97% employer

26–31 days holiday

Flexible hours

Professional development

Job summary

DWP Digital in the UK is seeking a Senior Tech Lead to drive engineering standards across delivery teams and help shape essential digital services.

You’ll mentor engineers, review designs, and push robust cloud and on‑prem solutions while upholding security, compliance and SDLC tooling.

The role offers hybrid working, a salary up to £92,522, a 28.97% employer pension, generous holidays and flexible hours. Career progression opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS cloud design, deployment and support experience.
• Proven ability to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code and cloud provider configurations.
• Strong collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Experience ensuring data security, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.
• Experience creating SDLC tooling to improve engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Set engineering standards across multiple delivery teams.
• Influence technology strategy and shape critical digital services.
• Mentor engineers, review solution designs and drive technical improvements.
• Guide cloud, on‑premises and third‑party platforms to robust, scalable services.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

IaC

Security & compliance

Leadership

Tools

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

We're looking for an outstanding Tech Lead, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £280bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

• Significant experience of the full life cycle of a cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and patching (AWS).
• Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
• Significant experience of collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Significant experience of ensuring adherence to industry standards for data security, disaster recovery and compliance.
• Significant experience of creating engineering tooling and solutions to optimise and align the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of our engineering teams.

You and your role As a Senior Tech Lead, you'll work across multiple delivery teams, setting engineering standards, influencing technology strategy and helping shape the future of critical digital services. You'll combine hands-on technical expertise with leadership, guiding engineers through complex challenges across cloud, on-premises and third-party platforms. From reviewing solution designs and driving technical improvements to mentoring engineers and advising senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in turning ideas into robust, scalable services.

Pay up to £92,522 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance., Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £92,522. Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth over £21,000 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.